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841) Beautiful creatures
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
842) Viola in reel life
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.
843) Hero-type
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is one of several reasons sixteen year old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity about his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he speaks out and encourages people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
Author
Series
Young Bond volume 5
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Language
English
Description
James Bond is forced to leave Eton College for Austria with a beautiful and dangerous girl by his side, and when he becomes entangled in a war of lies and secrets, he is forced to face a bitter enemy.
846) For keeps
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Potter, a fourth year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal fourteen year old wizard, but what Harry does not yet realize is that he is not a normal wizard, and in his case, different can be deadly.
849) Rebecca and Ana
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca is excited to have her cousin Ana from Russia living with her family in New York City, but she fears that Ana's poor English-speaking skills will ruin her presentation at school.
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Rubin, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants living in New York in 1914, does not know what to do when her teacher assigns the class to make Christmas decorations which she is sure will upset her family, but she gets some good advice from an unexpected place.
855) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
857) The Wednesday wars
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed-- then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
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